Although research indicates that adults with low literacy skills need 100 to 150 hours of instruction to advance one grade level, adults in literacy programs participate in instruction for an average of only 70 hours per year. The Wallace Foundation launched the Literacy in Libraries Across America (LILAA) initiative in 1996 to help library-based…

Group activities are becoming more and more popular in the teaching of second/foreign languages and other subjects in Thailand and around the world. Since about 1970, a great deal of work has gone into research and methodology in order to develop ways that teachers can help their students learn more effectively and happily in groups. Many people…

The three in-school success measures used for the model was overall GPA, shop grade, and proficiency score on Ohio Trade and Industrial Education Achievement Test. A relationship between the predictor variables and the criteria in terms of time was found with predictiveness increasing from ninth to eleventh grade. (MS)

The feasability of using the College Qualification Test (CQT) to predict scores on the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) is supported by a multiple regression analysis conducted among freshmen at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Author)

Argues that from a black perspective, the real concern is not merely that of defining intelligence, about which there is lacking a consensus among psychologists, but one which challenges the basic scientific considerations of validity, reliability, and standardization of intelligence tests. (Author/JM)

Because of lack of research and too much political gamesmanship, accountability's great promise may never be realized, say the authors. (Editor)

Explores how cultural bias exerts itself in the classroom through ethnic stereotypes in children's books, the use of standardized tests based on white middle class norms, and biased teacher attitudes. (TO)

Experts on test analysis discuss the appropriateness of the uses to which standardized tests are being put. (Author/RK)

Compares the Metropolitan Readiness Test with the opinion a parent or teacher has of a child for predicting success in the first grade. Results of a two year study are analyzed. (RK)

Examines and analyzes items on the Grossen Deutschen Sprachdiploms" test of May 1970. (WB)

Study examined correlations between standard deviations of test scores and an index of within-community variability in income. (Author)

Responds to Fry's article in the January 1971 Reading Teacher, The Orangoutang Score." Suggests that chance level scores should not be assumed to have arisen only from random processes and that there are methods for identifying a thoughtful, nonrandom performance. References. (VJ)

Through the courts parents are challenging the administration and use of standardized tests, placement procedures, and the effectiveness and harmful impact of special class placement of students labeled educable mentally retarded as a result of standardized testing. (Author/KW)

Advises teachers to determine course objectives, to assess students' performance levels with formal or informal measures, and then to determine which competencies are needed to fulfill the course objectives. (MB)